Alex Jacobowitz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alex Jacobowitz
Occupation	Street Artist
Date Of Birth	May 19, 1960(1960-05-19)
Age	64
Birthplace	New York City
Country	United States
Birth City	New York City
Horoscope	Taurus

Alex Jacobowitz Biography

Alex Jacobowitz is one of the most popular and richest Street Artist who was born on May 19, 1960 in New York City, New York City, United States. Alex Jacobowitz (born 19 May 1960 in New York) is a classically trained concert artist and street performer who plays the marimba and xylophone.

He is the recipient of a Meet the Composer award. His Art of Xylos CD was released in 2002 by Sony-BMG under the Arte Nova label, and was nominated for the Echo Prize under the crossover category. He won competitions in Montreal (1981), Lucerne (1994), Ludwigsburg (2004) and Osnabrück (2007). In 2016 he was accepted to the Central Council of Jews in Germany’s (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschlands) Artist Roster, which provided German government funding for his concerts in Jewish communities there; in August 2017 he was featured in their newspaper, the Jüdische Allgemeine.

He has performed with Shelly Lang’s Neshoma Orchestra (NYC), the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin Kammerphilharmoniker. He has performed Jewish music at Pisa’s Jewish Festival (Italy, 2011) Sydney’s Shir Madness festival (Australia, 2010), the Warsaw Jewish Festival (Poland, 2012), the Trondheim Jewish Culture Festival (Norway, 2012), the Düsseldorf Jewish Film Festival (2012, Germany), the Budapest Jewish Film Festival (Hungary, 2012) and the 4th Munich (München) Jüdische Filmtage (Jewish Film Festival, January 2013), the Jewish Cultural Days in Vienna (2014), Jewish Week in Leipzig (2015).

In 1994, he began the study of traditional Jewish instrumental music (klezmer) with Giora Feidman. In 1997, he saw Brave Old World in concert, and trained under Alan Bern, their musical director.

Alex Jacobowitz Net Worth

Alex Jacobowitz is one of the richest Street Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alex Jacobowitz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

During the early 1980s he studied music at the State University of New York at Binghamton, studying marimba privately with Gordon Stout, John Beck and Leigh Howard Stevens. Soon thereafter, he began a busking career in the late 1980’s, playing on the streets of New York City, including at Lincoln Center’s “Meet the Artist” program, Yeshiva University, Zabar’s, Central Park, the 84th Street Synagogue, International House, the New York Hilton, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Coney Island’s “Sideshows by the Seashore”. From 1984-1989 he was an Official Street Performer at the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan, a member of Musicians Under New York, and Young Audiences of Rochester and the Northeast Intermediate Unit #19 (Pennsylvania). He has performed at Arts Councils and Imagination Celebrations throughout New York State. He has performed on Entertainment Tonight, and has been an artist-in- residence at Artpark (New York) and Holland Village (Japan).

In 1991, he moved to Europe, mainly performing in Germany, and living in Berlin. Jacobowitz performed classic and Jewish traditional music on German television (ARD, ZDF, Third Programmes), and occasionally in Hungary, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, South Korea, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine. In 2006, he was invited to perform at the Busker’s Festival in Ferrara, Italy. Since 2015 he has been accepted into the Artists’ Program of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland).

Since 2010 he has been performing klezmer music with violinists Yona (Stas) Rayko or Mark Kovnatskiy at Jewish cultural festivals throughout Europe. His book Ein Klassischer Klezmer: Reisegeschichten eines jüdischen Musikers was published in German in 1998, 2000 and 2016.

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Alex Ranked on the list of most popular Street Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Alex Jacobowitz celebrates birthday on May 19 of every year.